I would post but it’s pretty much a 1 sided debate. Nobody has yet said “I don’t want gay people to have rights recognized by the government which coincide with the rights married couples currently have”. Basically its just Shii trying to play keepaway with the word marriage. Which is slightly humorous, but not worthy of comment imo. Oops too late.Log in to see images!(view post)

I have discovered evidence that the contest is rigged. Prepare yourselves for the most shocking reality TV revelation since Obama won that Presidency show thing.
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That’s right people. Invariel already won. He’s from the future. Winning afforded him access to the CZ time machine, and he came back to fix Episode 3 before it can be ruined by…. HIMSELF! But wait, if he already won and came back in time, that means he won’t enter and won’t ever get access to the time machine. But then he won’t not enter and he won’t come back in time and he’ll still enter….
****ING INVARIEL, NOW WERE IN A TIME PARADOX. OH SH—
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It seems to me that you are describing domination as getting medals by hitting predetermined levels of scoops.

It is true that each type of scoop has a theoretical and/or effective cap. AF is hard capped. Chocolate is theoretically uncapped, but effectively capped by buildr score. Lemon is capped by the amount of visits you can have in a given week. Pistachio is capped by the number of unique forums there are. Vanilla is capped by various things, mostly visits per week and the klan raiding caps.

Also, medals are earned in part by how you use your scoops. That part has plenty of decision-making, keeping it variable and fun. Of course, there’s always room for discussion about that part, but I will leave that for another thread.

My point is not how many scoops people can gain, and how they use them once they have earned them, but the ways in which they can earn them.

If there weren’t any cards and we were not playing against anyone I would agree.

Ok ok you got me, I should have qualified with “There is no strategy to the part of Domination in which you earn scoops. The organization of brackets and cards and such is fine. Except for there not being a seperate dom end time for Europeans.”

I will briefly touch on what i think is the core problem with trying to make dom better by nerfing or buffing certain flavors. That is, regardless of the amount of each scoops one can garner, everyone can equally gain all types of scoops. Choosing to be good at one type of scoop has no effect on how good you are at the other types of scoops.

The only scoops that share any consumed resource are vanilla and lemon. The only hard decision I ever had to make was whether I should speed for lemons or save my visits for raiding (That was way before klan vanilla was found to be completely and utterly broken). Imho, domination needs less caps and nerfs, more decision making like this.

Currently, the “strategy” for Domination is as follows

1) Gamble script for AF

AND

2) Submit jank for buildr that i think people will like

AND

3) Make sure I’m on still on track with my pstash loop

AND EITHER

4a) Solo Raid

4b) Klan raid

AND

5) do the forums as fast as possible within the constraints of 4a or 4b

See the problem? There’s no tough decision. There’s no strategy. There is pretty much 1 way to play dom. Even 4a and 4b aren’t much of a choice. This week, and before klan raiding was nerfed, 4b was better because of the 3x vanilla for klan raiding. After klan raid nerf, 4a was the only way to go.

The point is, regardless of which flavor is nerfed or buffed, the strategy is still the same. Sure, you can basically ignore some aspect of the game if something is way way overpowered like klan vanilla was, but my point still stands. None of the scoops are mutually exclusive. I myself don’t have a solution, but bickering over which flavour of scoop is overpowered doesn’t seem to me like it will ever make domination more fun.

I believe Wylin has brought up a very valid and useful feature that could be added to the game. I know that pressing 1 and 2 in a repeated fashion has worn out my 1 and 2 keys more than any other. If we could implement an “auto-fire” key, I could just hold down that key and pwn an entire forum without wearing it out. If you could implement an auto-refresh so that I can pwn that same forum over and over while holding that bumon down aswell, that would be swell. And maybe tie in a function that posts to flamebate at the same time, and plays blackjack for me, and repairs my equipment when needed. The possibilities for this single bumon idea are endless!

Congratulations to all the new moderators. There will come a time, when you will look back at this and laugh. Laugh yourself silly from your padded rooms after dealing with everything a mod has to deal with…. Good luck! Log in to see images!(view post)